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Talk about your Dodos: Even Wallstreet Journal Knows Dissident Catholicism is a Dead End

Sometimes the stench from dead bodies grows so strong that you have to admit that something's wrong; even the leftist organs of information pick up the story, long after people like Father Z. or most of the curia have been talking about it for more than a decade now.

Dissident Catholicism has been long relied upon by the media for quite awhile, but they're a tough act to follow, literally; they have no intellectual heirs (unless you're talking about John Allen) In the days of yore, liberal journalistas could always rely upon an articulate traitor to speak condescendingly about "medievalism" and "outmoded beliefs" or wheel out such jargon words as "Jansenism" to make the lives of the harried local Cardinal of New York or Libson difficult.

Nowadays such voices are becoming increasingly hard to find. Some of them have, no doubt succumbed to complications related to AIDS, others have simply keeled over, and others, like the Zombies of a George Romero film, continue to shamble their way behind the microphones of journalists eager for that tired old dissident story. Increasingly, they have to rely on alleged polls that indicate that most Catholics believe women should be priests. We hope it was a scientific poll.

Well, now the Wall Street Journal, owned by Papal Knight Rupert Murdock, is telling the sad tale: but they're putting a brave face on it all the same. Perhaps there's some lamentation admid occasional attempts at gallows mirth, but the female journalist at Wall isn't entirely at a loss. She seems confident that since most Catholics are dissident anyhow, that perhaps Catholicism is a "dead letter" after all and that like characters from Elenor Rigby, laughable Catholic clergy who don't really believe in Catholicism are becoming unnecessary.

h/t to pewsitter, our inspiration.